On the Cover 32
Saturday Nights dour funnymen John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd retreat from their public—and their critics—for private lives of odd domesticity amid the mayhem
Up Front 16
The town of Wichita Falls, Texas meets the killer heat wave with grim determination
The gamekeeper didn't make it, but Liz Taylor, Tony Randall and Allen Ginsberg saluted D.H. Lawrence in Taos
Where George Bush goes, his wife, Barbara, follows, devoted but hardly downtrodden
The Model Wars rage on, and a 19-year-old dazzler named Esmé is in the middle
Heroes 31
Soured by sugar price-fixing, Madelyne Brinker wins sweet justice for consumers
Inventors 39
For those who believe ripeness is all, Russ Anglin has a foolproof watermelon tester
Teacher 42
Surveying the field including Rostropovich, Indiana University's Janos Starker picks himself as the world's premier cellist
Bio 48
Country editor Henry Beetle Hough defends a Martha's Vineyard besieged by developers
Over the Tube 56
Three's Company's Joyce DeWitt calls it quits with her beau, Ray (Rhoda) Buktenica
Lookout 60
Animal paramedic Yvonne Orthman, 23
Photo dealer Daniel Wolf, 25
Couples 63
Temperence Hill was a long shot, but so is the track-record marriage of trainer Joe Cantey and TV commentator wife Charlsie
Crime 66
Valerie Harper comes to the aid—and corners the role—of convicted husband murderer Joyce DeVillez
In His Own Words 68
At 53, Sidney Poitier looks back on a life that included Diahann Carroll, Harry Belafonte—and Oscar
In Style 73
Babe Ruth and Eleanor Roosevelt bought from L.L. Bean; now John Denver and Woody Allen order from his grandson, Leon Gorman
Medics 77
Dr. W. Gerald Austen's patients have included John Wayne, Henry Kissinger and David Brinkley, but celebrities are only his sideline
Discovery 80
Geophysicist William Ryan hopes he'll have a day to remember, finding the Titanic
On Stage 86
While rocker Rex Smith partners Linda Ronstadt in a New York operetta, his offstage life is pure soap opera
Mail 4
People Picks & Pans 10
Beverlee McKinsey leads part of the Another World troupe into a daytime knock-off of Dallas
Sidney Sheldon's Rage of Angels illustrates the pop-novel success formula: Do lots of bloody things to lots of sexy characters
Gerry Rafferty's latest LP, Snakes and Ladders, should wind into hearts and charts
Robert Duvall masterfully portrays a gung-ho Marine in a quiet triumph, The Great Santini
Star Tracks 40
Carol Channing is the new Sugar Baby
Is Col. Tom Parker seeking a new Elvis?
Dionne Warwick meets O.J.'s squeeze
A Bee Gee baby—Maurice Gibb's Samantha
Henry Winkler plays the Big Top
Alvin Ailey backstage with Nureyev
People Puzzle 82
Chatter 88
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